Mandy vs Margaret - What's the difference?
mandy | margaret |
. Popular as a formal given name in the U.K. in the 1960s and 1970s.
* 1928 Joyce Lankester Brisley: Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories . Chapter 1:
* 1994 P.D.James: Original Sin ISBN 0679438890 page 10:
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* 1590 William Shakespeare: First Part of King Henry the Sixth: Act V, Scene V (the closing lines):
* 1830 Mary Russell Mitford: Our Village: Cottage Names :
* 1868 Bentley's Miscellany, London. p.417:
* 2012 (Louise Erdrich), The Round House , Corsair (2013), ISBN 9781472108166, page 292:
A river of southwestern Western Australia, presumed named for a cousin of .
A river of the Kimberley region of Western Australia, named for its European discoverer's sister-in-law.
(astronomy) A moon of Uranus, named for a character in .
* 2009 , Richard Schmude, Jr., Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto and How to Observe Them ,
* 2012 , Peter Bond, Exploring the Solar System ,
* 2013 , David A. J. Seargent, Weird Worlds: Bizarre Bodies of the Solar System and Beyond ,
As a noun mandy
is (uk|slang|uncountable) the drug mdma.As a proper noun margaret is
.mandy
English
Proper noun
(en-proper noun) (plural Mandys )- But Mother and Father and Grandpa and Grandma and Uncle and Aunty couldn't very well call out "Millicent Margaret Amanda" every time they wanted her, so they shortened it to "Milly-Molly-Mandy " which is quite easy to say.
- Without looking up, she asked: "Is your name Mandy or Amanda Price?"
- "Mandy', Miss Etienne." In other circumstances ' Mandy would have pointed out that if her name were Amanda the CV would have said so.
margaret
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Margaret shall now be queen, and rule the king;
- But I will rule both her, the king, and realm.
- Margaret , Marguerite - the pearl! the daisy! Oh name of romance and of minstrelsy, which brings the days of chivalry to mind, and the worship of flowers and ladies fair!
- Amongst us English, the name is a greater favourite than with any other nation: but we have played upon it, and abused it oftener too. In no language does Margaret sound sweeter or homelier than in ours: not so Mag, Maggie, Meg, Madge, Moggie, Peg, Peggy, and abominable Piggy, of which abridgements only the two first are defensible.
- The girls from our year were mainly named some version of Shawn. There was Shawna, Dawna, Shawnee, Dawnali, Shalana, and just plain Dawn and Shawn. There was also a girl named Margaret', named after her grandmother, who worked at the post office. I ended up talking with ' Margaret .
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- Astronomers discovered nine small moons lying outside the orbit of Oberon (Francisco, Caliban, Stephano, Trinculo, Sycorax, Margaret , Prospero, Setebos, and Ferdinand) between 1997 and 2003.
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- The odd one out is Margaret , which travels in a "normal" prograde direction, though it has the most eccentric orbit of all the Uranian satellites.
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- ' Margaret takes about 4.6 Earth years to complete a single orbit of the planet.